Download Demon (Gaea, Book 3) by John Varley PDF

The satellite-sized alien Gaea has long gone thoroughly insane. She has reworked her love of outdated videos into giant realities. She is Marilyn Monroe. She is King Kong. And now she needs to be destroyed.

L to R (Western Style). 90 years from now, a satellite tv for pc detects a close-by black gap scientists dub Kali for the Hindu goddess of destruction. Humanity embarks on a generations-long undertaking to faucet the strength of the black gap, and located colonies on planets around the sunlight method. Earth and Mars and the moons Europa (Jupiter) and Titan (Uranus) improve significantly various societies, with merely Kali, that swirling vortex of destruction and production, and the hated yet an important man made Accretion Disk improvement organization (AADD) in universal.

In 10,000 BC, the Shadow ways and destroys the potent empire of Atlantis, leaving now not hint of it except imprecise legend. just a handful of survivors, priestesses and warriors live on, realizing they need to move their legacy down, in order that the following time the Shadow comes, mankind could be larger prepared.

Now it has come again. however it desires the whole planet. throughout parallel dimensions, the Shadow has ate up Earth after Earth, yet one Earth has again and again stopped it: ours.

The Shadow's most modern attack in the world left hundreds of thousands lifeless around the world, a widening hole within the ozone layer, and a cloud of radioactive gasoline poisoning the ambience. Former eco-friendly Beret Eric Dane believes his visions are messages educating him on how you can retailer the area from entire annihilation. Now, Dane and the group of a U. S. military learn vessel embark on a risks quest throughout house and time in a determined gamble to alter the destiny of the earth. ..

Lighting fixtures Out chronicles the demanding situations of Mark “Karate Man” Turner while the lighting exit over lots of the unfastened international. He needs to locate in himself the power to unite his kinfolk, buddies, and associates if any of them are to outlive the cruel fact that daily life turns into whilst the veneer of civilization is stripped away.

Organize for a distinct type of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight

It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a global the place the dearly departed ship postcards again from Heaven and evangelicals make medical breakthroughs via conversing in tongues; the place genetically engineered vampires remedy difficulties intractable to baseline people and infantrymen include zombie switches that close off self-awareness in the course of wrestle. And it's all less than surveillance by means of an alien presence that refuses to teach itself.

Daniel Bruks is a residing fossil: a box biologist in an international the place biology has grew to become computational, a cat's-paw utilized by terrorists to kill millions. Taking safe haven within the Oregon wilderness, he's grew to become his again on a humanity that shatters into unusual new subspecies with each heartbeat. yet he awakens one evening to discover himself on the heart of a hurricane that may flip all of historical past inside-out.
Now he's trapped on a boat certain for the heart of the sun method. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by way of whispered messages from a lifeless son. To his correct is a pilot who hasn't but stumbled on the fellow she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk within the shadows in the back of. And lifeless forward, a handful of rapture-stricken clergymen takes all of them to a gathering with anything they are going to purely name "The Angels of the Asteroids. "
Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil guy, face-to-face with the largest evolutionary breakpoint because the foundation of idea itself.

Another found a crumb of hope. " "No. " Several people drew back a step. It was all too easy to imagine the Lord of Darkness returning at any moment and with a single gesture sweeping them all out of existence. " the officer shouted hoarsely. " And with that he rose to his feet, having found what he had been groping for in the dust, a small object and inconspicuous. With the sound of a sob in his throat, he hastened to wrap his right hand in a fragment of cloth, torn from his own tattered uniform.

And I can move. " He nodded. If Uncle Humbert thought that Jeremy was slacking on the job he would yell at him but was unlikely to try to impose any penalty. Generally Jeremy worked hard for most of his waking hours—because working was about the only way to keep from thinking about other things, topics that continually plagued him. Such as dead parents, live girls who sometimes could be seen with no clothes on, and a life that had no future, only an endless path down which he walked, pushing a loaded barrow.

THREE Again, as Jeremy hurried about his work, he had the sensation of being watched. But he saw and heard nothing to support the feeling. Everyone in the village was busy as usual, preoccupied with work, the busy harvesttime of midsummer—Uncle Humbert had explained how the variously mutated varieties of grapes came to maturity in sequence and disasters might befall them unless they were tended and harvested in exactly the right way. The ruts in the village's only street still held puddles from last week's rain.